Month: September 2013
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Fresh Start (Delayed Post)
When I arrived back ‘home’ after two months away I was disoriented and unsettled at being back. The apartment did not feel as if it was my home. Everything felt wrong from how I left it, though it was just a matter of a bit of messiness due to R being around after I left.…
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Being on my own…
Does being on my own cause my bipolar tendencies to act up? This question came to my mind today as I contemplated my sort of manic feelings of needing to accomplish a lot. Here’s what I did today: *Slept in (9.30) for me… *Search for a number of TV shows to download and began the…
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Week 1 Survived!
It’s a strange cycle of life that we go through as teachers or maybe as expats in general. From an academic perspective, we work for 10 months with a few holidays here and there, then have nearly two months to ourselves and then return to another 10 months. While the rest of the population might…
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In Memory Of…
Last night, R’s mom passed away from liver cancer. She had outlived her husband by 17 years and survived breast cancer. MJ’s outlook on life was always positive and she embraced the beauty in the world and people. The last time I got to see her was Christmas 2011 when she came to visit…
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_The Year of the Flood_ by Margaret Atwood
_The Year of the Flood_ by Margaret Atwood Since I still had the freedom to keep reading, I decided to go ahead and read the second novel in the MaddAddam series. The first being _Oryx and Crake_ from a few weeks ago. The second novel is told from the perspective of two other characters who…
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2013-2014 Academic Year Prep…
So, the new academic year is approaching. Classes start off next Sunday morning – bright and early. This week has actually been a nice transition so far. On Sunday, we were expected to appear at some point in the day. So, I went and was seen..aka made the rounds – asking/answering the same questions –…
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_The Book of Tea_ by Kakuzo Okakura
_The Book of Tea_ by Kakuzo Okakura Since early in my Japan days and the days of Loren, this has been amongst my books to read, but never got to for various reasons. When I saw it was free to download on Kindle ages ago, I got it for that aloof ‘someday’. Well, ‘someday’ arrived…
